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The Underdog : a studio-based programme where 'celebrities' train an abandoned dog. Victoria's Empire : where Victoria Wood, because she shares the same forename as a former UK monarch, travels around the globe visiting former colonies, using her expertise as a stand-up comedienne and sit-com writer to discuss it. Those studio-based shows where a new lead for a West End musical is sought. Sheesh. |
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I thought you'd made those up but Google proves Truth is Fuckier than Fiction. |
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But television is redundant as a medium, in general, or rather, tv programming, what with the surfeit of options to watch what you actually want to as opposed to what broadcasters might want to impose on you. This slide into utter shit is just their way of saying "ok, we give up" in a post-modern, media referential stance. |
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Actually the notion of switching on the TV to watch anything other than the news is becoming increasingly quaint. I get "Lost" off of the torrents, like any (increasingly rare) British TV programme that takes my fancy. Other than that it's DVDs or old bollocks online. Fuck telly. You had it all and you spunked it away, I've no sympathy, you cancerous shit peddler. |
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Definately. I dont know many people who actually sit down and watch TV any more. Now anyone who is even slightly internet savvy can watch whatever they want, whenever they want. |
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Yeah, I downloaded all of "Man to Man with Dean Learner" and "Extras Series 2" from the internet as I was working when they were shown. The only three shows I really watch now are: The Apprentice, Have I Got News For You, and Derren Brown: Trick or Treat. |
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Man to Man with the Sci-Fi actor kills me every time! |
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Well, this is it, the lame brain remenants of TV just pander to that addled percentage of the community that fear computers and are quite happy to watch Alan Titwank watch paint dry as they lay dying. |
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I loved "Man to Man" : it didn't seem to garner much attention, but I thought it was simply awesome: awaiting a DVD release and a follow-up series set in their odd universe. |
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Eventually they will die out. On demand content will become the preferred way of viewing. I'd like to think it'll help smaller programme makers but I can see an average evenings entertainment becoming a night on YouTube watching the musings of the latest internet 'personality'. |
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Interesting.. I watch alot of TV. Maybe I'm old fashioned.. I just like the 'live' element of it much more than things being 'On Demand.' It seems too easy when it's all downloadable.. there's no watercooler conversation element left to it. I still appreciate Youtube, Bittorrent, etc., and I realize TV as we know it may be a thing of the past very soon, but I like being able to sit back, flip it on, and be at the mercy of whatever the TV throws at my eyeballs. |
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I always enjoy it when a sporting event is on: I don't have to pay much attention, so I can stick the headphones on & make music or write, and glance up now and then for a few moments without having to commit or be sucked in... Kinda like the snooker at the moment :D |
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Well, live events, news, sport, are one thing, I sat up as Hussein was hanged and felt the thrill of History Occurring. But it's symptomatic that tailored material is becoming increasingly threadbare. |
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Today, I was watching a political debate programme. Then the host said "keep your comments short!" That's what's wrong with the world. |
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You could have easily abbreviated that to: "Today: debate; short comments!" |
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Or just "bla" "bla bla bl *HEY SHUT UP YOU'RE TALKING TOO MUCH; YOU'RE RISKING ACTUALLY MAKING YOUR POINT!" |
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that's more text dumbass! |
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Youth hosteling with Chris Eubank. |
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We get spoilt on a Friday night, then there's nothing else on for the rest of the time: -Ruddy Hell It's Harry & Paul -Derren Brown -Peep Show |
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i just saw the louis theroux docu he made with that guy, really fucking good. |
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Terrestrial UK TV been fucking really really shite lately. no decent films on, a shit load of reality TV panel, "oooh, I want to be in a West End musical coz I'm a complete idiot" type programs and fucking Michaela Strachan with a load of fucking large rodents. it's awful. |
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"the apprentice" fits into the category described in your first post in this thread, as far as i'm concerned. |
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Yes, I understood the contentious nature of admitting that I watch it; however, if it's good enough for Adrian Chiles, then it's good enough for me! At least half the people on it have higher IQs than the average 6hr/day+ TV viewer. |
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true that. "happy" 20k by the way. |
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I thought UK TV was bad, until I saw Portuguese TV. It's hilarious. Their morning TV shows (think This Morning) have items like a local cobbler showing the tools of his trade, awful middle aged singers you'd find in your local karaoke, or working man's club at best and teenage girls doing dance routines that would normally be confined to a girl's bedroom. |
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I don't actually have a tv in my flat. Everytime i do watch the tv i wonder how i ever did watch it in the first place. I wouldn't even watch the news on tv these days. Radio 4 and the world service cover everything in a much more enlightening way. |
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TV is a funny thing, it's the domain of the bored - not that there's anything wrong with being bored. If everybody had very full, active social lives would anyone watch TV at all? |
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And Ground Force can't be compared to Gardener's Questions. |
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Just about the only show on R4 that I'll actually switch off. |
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What?! You can be in the same room as The Archers??? |
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I am with you on that one. |
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I find BBC4 is often a real treat to watch compared to the other channels. Recently I watched "Tinker tailer soldier spy" and it's now showing "Smiley's People". Both are fantastic dramas. It's so refreshing to see a well made, well acted drama on TV. I wish the other channels would ditch celebrities and start making real programmes again. I could moan on and on about what is wrong with TV at the moment, but I think the root cause is chasing audience numbers, rather than making quality programmes to attract viewers. I sometimes think "they" think the whole country is made of women who read heat magazine and men who support ingerland football team, if you know what I mean... |
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it is? |
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What's wrong with The Archers?! |
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Emmerdale for the middle classes pal. |
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Nah. I come from council house stock, & my mum always listens to it. |
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Is she aspiring like mine? |
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Imagine if Burial did the theme tune to The Archers. |
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No, she aspired already, when I was 8. |
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The sad thing is all those shows will probably be ripped off for North American television. That's how things usually work over here. |
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All the best TV seems to come from the US, and the HBO network in particular. The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood and Six Feet Under are all superb shows. |
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I have The Wire on order: I haven't seen it, but Total Film raved about it so much I felt compelled to investigate it. New ITV Show, The Baron, will feature three "celebrities" - Malcolm McLaren, Suzanne Shaw (from Hear'Say), and Mike Reid (from Eastenders and stand-up comedian) - who will live in the fishing village of Gardenstown (NE Scotland), for a two-week period, after which the locals will vote & decide which one claims the (legitimate) title Baron of Troup. Insane. |
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i like House. dunno why - i've just got into it lately. it's like X-Files, only without aliens, Mulder or Scully, paranormal occurances, the FBI, or shit music. |
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Mate, you're in for one hell of a treat. I looked it up after seeing Charlie Brooker calling it the best TV show ever. It's so far away from that goodies/baddies cops n' robbers shite and I can't think of one film that holds a candle to it on its subject. I once read that Mike Reid's son murdered someone, then topped 'iself. Arrt av ordah in my book. |
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Yeah, The Wire looks like it might actually have a realistic and natural story arc unlike a lot of shows which overextend themselves and get more and more ludicrous. |
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The Wire is brilliant. *contribute* |
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Not only that. It deals with the politics of the police, and in series two, unions. And not from any left-wing standpoint. The writer is an ex-crime reporter who clearly knows his shit. |
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